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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon could get weapons moving to Ukraine within days once Congress passes a long-delayed aid bill. That’s because it has a network of storage sites in the U.S. and Europe that already hold the ammunition and air defense components that Kyiv desperately needs. Moving fast is critical, CIA Director Bill Burns […]
The Chinese Communist Party uses tax rebates to subsidize the manufacturing and export of fentanyl materials, a House panel said in a report released Tuesday. The House Select Committee on China pointed to findings indicating that China plays a key role in the flow of fentanyl into the U.S., and lawmakers made several recommendations to […]
Congress voted early Saturday to strip hundreds of millions of dollars from the United Nations agency that distributes most of the food, medicine and basic services to Palestinians in Gaza and across the Middle East, marking what critics say is a devastating blow to a region in crisis. The United States, along with . . […]
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks during a news conference with Majority Leader Steve Scalise and Majority Whip Tom Emmer following a closed-door GOP conference meeting at the US Capitol Visitors Center on March 20 in Washington, DC. The House voted on Friday to approve key government spending bills, setting off a sprint […]
The deal on a massive appropriations bill reached between Congress and the White House will include a ban on all direct U.S. funding for the main humanitarian agency operating in Gaza, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, until March 2025, three sources with knowledge of the negotiations confirmed to CBS News. […]
By Will Grant, Central America correspondent & James Gregory BBC News 1 hour ago Image caption, A coalition of gangs in Haiti have united in an attack against the state The US says it will contribute a further $100m (£78m) to an international security force in Haiti as violence grips the country. US Secretary of […]
10:38 a.m. ET, February 29, 2024 Congressional leaders struck a deal on appropriations bills and a stopgap funding measure. Here’s what’s in it From CNN’s Melanie Zanona, Kristin Wilson and Haley Talbot The US Capitol is seen in Washington, DC, on February 27. Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Congressional leaders struck a deal Wednesday on some of […]
Venture capital funding for African American-owned startups plummeted in the U.S. last year, with metro Atlanta seeing one of the worst declines, according to data released Thursday by data firm Crunchbase. VC funding for Black-owned businesses fell 71% nationally in 2023 compared to 2022. In the Atlanta area, such funding declined by 79%, Crunchbase found.
WASHINGTON (AP) — As Russia makes battlefield advances and Ukrainian soldiers run short on ammunition, U.S. adults have become fractured along party lines in their support for sending military aid to Kyiv, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Democrats are more likely to say the U.S. government […]